Like I said, maybe it worth it to you. Some people commenting like a distress pin is some sort of pancea.

That is highly dependant on the country you do it in.

People, if you are taken into custody and are forced to unlock the phone and you wipe the phone instead, you are living in a fantasy world if you think you can’t get in trouble for that.

Maybe that’s worth it but let’s not kid ourselves that there wouldn’t be consequences.

Remember plausible deniability is a social concept not a legal one. It might of helped you get out of being grounded but it won’t save you from jail time.

Why? Both of those options are worse. You can’t be a privacy respecting service and not allow VPNs. If you do allow VPNs, it is going to force you to sometimes blanket ban an IP because bad actors use VPNs as well.

Typically this only happens on free VPN servers because people who abuse these services also realize they are going to get banned. The easiest solution is to use a premium VPN or signup with your actual IP address (depending on your threat model).

My guess is that whatever VPN server your connected to had someone else who was spamming or doing something else they weren’t supposed to. This caused the email addresses associated with that IP to be flagged.

One of the drawbacks to a VPN is you share your IP with strangers who sometimes do stuff you get penalized for.

The protocol is cool, the implementation becoming proprietary and enshittified is a bummer.

Stunner legal entity follows the law…

Fellas your VPN is not going to break the law for you.

https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1873/IWPE17_paper_23.pdf

They are so different they felt the need to compare themselves directly in their own white paper. You are an idiot.

Its literally just a worse version of ubo with an extra snake oil feature.

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We are all dumber for reading your comment.

They literally compare themselves to ubo in their own white paper. Are you dense?

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This performs worse in literally every category when compared to ubo. You can check their own white paper if you don’t believe me.

Poisoned data is extremely easy to filter and will only get easier as AI improves. Stop making these posts this is basically FUD. It is much better to get rid of the data you can and form proper data hygiene practices.

Mullvad Browser is literally based on Firefox ESR. Which they clearly state.

For example: “Mullvad Browser 14.0, based on Firefox ESR 128”

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-browser-140-released

Their past dramas are irrelevant to this issue.

Giving into a straw man argument such as their other dramas somehow devalue what’s going on now, only plays into the French propaganda campaign.

Not as bad a taste as the French government is giving me.

If its do I trust GOS or a confirmed pro chat control governments side of the story, its an easy choice.

Don’t bring data you are not ok with a foreign government forcing you to handover. That’s the simplest solution.

Back all your important data up, then wipe your phone before you go. Same with the laptop. You can’t be coerced into giving something you don’t have.

Threat modeling is important. If your just an average Joe being a tourist it is highly unlikely the Chinese government is going to take your devices to search.

Source: travelled to China for an extended period of time.

This is not feasible. You are not going to become an expert in mobile development on a timeline that makes any sense. Even if you did its still a massive under taking to port an end of life phone to work with a version of an OS that was never built to work with that phone, that’s assuming its possible.

Just buy a used pixel 7a and start learning to develop apps on that.